Charlie Riedel/The Associated PressLouisiana Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Shane Granier pilots his air boat Wednesday in an area of Pass a Loutre affected by oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill.

These new sightings of oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill have been reported recently to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Louisiana Army National Guard and local governments.

PlaqueminesParish:

Oil found on mangrove trees in the canals of East Grand Terre near Grand Bank Bayou, June 2.

Tar balls found scattered in a rip line made up of mostly trash in the
southwest inlet of Wilkinson Bay, June 2. A rip line is an area where breaking water churns just off the beach or a sandbar.

Boom is washing up on an unnamed island at Grand Island Port in Barataria Bay, June 2

Tar balls found scattered in a rip line at the southern end of Lake Grand Ecaille, June 2

Oil sheen approximately 40 yards wide by 2 miles long just outside Baptiste Collet, June 2

Blackish oil slick with some red/brown and foamy areas 4.5 miles east of the Southwest Pass Lighthouse, June 2

Jefferson Parish:

Ribbon of sheen with surface foam in Bay Dosgris off Little Lake, June 2

Gray sheen running approximately a mile south down the Barataria Waterway, June 2.

Rip line with gray sheen extending approximately 300 yards south of the mouth of Bayou St. Denis in the Barataria Bay waterway, June 2

Oil on the mangrove trees in the canals of East Grand Terre at the north east side of Little Bayou Chevreau, June 2

Thick oil in grass on an island one mile south of Manilla Village, June 2

Small area of grey sheen in northeast corner of Hackberry Bay, June 2.

Terrebonne Parish:

Light and intermittent brown oil, one mile south of Trinity Island, June 2.

Bird collection

Biologists with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries rescued six oiled seagulls in Plaquemines Parish and on dead pelican at the Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management
Area on Wednesday.

Seven oiled sanderlings and one heavily oiled tern were recovered on the eastern end of Grand Isle.

The rescued birds were taken to the Fort Jackson rehabilitation
facility in Buras. The facility is operated by Tri-State Bird Rescue
and Research Center and the International Bird Rescue and Research
Center.

Since recovery efforts began along the Louisiana coast, 24 birds have been rehabilitated and released back into the wild.